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Elite Riders
KER sponsors a select group of exceptional riders. These riders have used KER-formulated feeds to fuel their international successes.
- Georgia Bruce
- Chris Chugg
- Lisa Coulter
- John Crandell III
- Phillip Dutton
- Steven Hay
- Megan Jones
- Mary Jordan
- David O'Connor
Georgia Bruce
Georgia Bruce
Georgia Bruce has represented Australia in international competition on eight occasions, with her greatest achievement to date having won two Bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. On a daily basis Georgia works with exotic animals at the Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve where she uses her extensive skill and experience with clicker training to train cheetahs, lemurs and a rhino. Georgia employs clicker training to her everyday training with her horses and has brought along ‘Rhumba the wonder horse' as he is known, from an unbroken youngster to training Grand Prix movements at liberty.
Georgia has been sponsored by Kentucky Equine Research since 2008.
Chris Chugg
Chris Chugg
Chris is one of Australia's elite show jumping riders. He has been the Australian Champion three times, and also twice represented Australia at the World Cup final. He has won 30 World Cup qualifiers aboard 11 different horses.
Lisa Coulter
Lisa Coulter
Lisa Coulter was ranked as the No. 1 reining rider in the world by the FEI in 2010. She has a keen interest in developing the sport of reining within Canada and is avidly involved as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Reining Committee, chair of the High Performance Committee and is also an athlete representative. Together Lisa and Bob Thompson own a ranch in Pilot Point, Texas. This ranch is where Lisa bases her training as she travels back and forth between British Columbia and Texas doing business and competing.
John Crandell III
John Crandell III
John Crandell III has been engaged in the sport of endurance since 1976. In 2006 John trained Heraldic to earn the first triple crown in the history of American endurance riding by winning the Old Dominion 100, the Tevis Cup, and the AERC National Championships. He also won the best conditioned horse award at each event. With continued success in 2007, John was named Chronicle of the Horse Overall Horseman of the Year. John has been a professional farrier since 1983, giving him opportunities to serve as a shoeing and training consultant. Finally, he has participated as a rider or a staff member for the United Arab Emirates and United States endurance teams for most world championships, as well as many other major international events since 1986.
Phillip Dutton
Phillip Dutton
Phillip began riding in his native New South Wales, Australia. He moved to the United States in 1991. Phillip represented Australia in three Olympics and four World Championships before becoming an American citizen in 2006. He rode for the United States in the 2007 Pan American Games, as well as the Bejiing Olympics in 2008.
He was named the U.S. Eventing Association's Leading Rider of the Year title in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. He was also the FEI's No. 1 World Event Rider in 2005.
Also a dedicated coach, Phillip and his wife, Evie, own, manage, and train out of True Prospect Farm in West Grove, Pa., and Red Oak Farm in Aiken, S.C.
Steven Hay
Endurance rider Steven Hay has an impressive competition record to his credit including individual and team medals at the 2010 and 2011 North American Junior Young Riders Championships, and multiple other top finishes. He began riding in endurance competitions at the age of 12 and has accumulated over 2,800 miles, many of which were ridden on horses he owns and conditions.
Hay will represent the United States at the Young Rider World Endurance Championships, to be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on December 10, 2011. He will ride Khalil Asam in the competition, and he feels honored to do so. "I'm blessed to have the opportunity to compete with this horse against the best young riders in the world," said Hay. Khalil Asam is owned by Natalie Muzzio.
Aside from his equestrian interests, Hay is a full-time student at Penn State University, where is pursuing a degree in environmental resource management.
Megan Jones
Megan Jones
Megan Jones is one of Australia's top event riders. She was a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as well as a member of the bronze-medal Australian Event Team at the 2006 World Equestrian Games.
Jones owns Australia's Kirby Park Stud. Her top horses include Kirby Park Irish Jester and Kirby Park Allofasudden.
In 2009 she was named Equestrian Federation of Australia-South Australia Eventing Rider of the Year, while Kirby Park Irish Jester was Equestrian Federation of Australia-South Australia Eventing Horse of the Year and leader of the FEI World Rankings.
Megan Jones feeds KER-formulated Barastoc feeds from Ridley AgriProducts and nutritional supplements from KER.
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan is a life-long equestrian, competing in dressage, para-equestrian dressage (Grade 4), and eventing. Aboard the stallion “Bohmer's As” Mary earned one of the highest scores for any U.S. rider at the 4* level in the 2009 European Para-Equestrian Dressage Championship in Norway, cracking into the Top 10 in the musical freestyle. Jordan has won many dressage and eventing regional and national championships and reserve titles on horses she has raised herself and has earned her scores for a USDF bronze medal. Mary rode her homebred mare, Paxton Abbey, in para-dressage at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
As the third person in her family with multiple sclerosis (MS), Mary is a passionate advocate for MS awareness. Sharing her story of managing her MS to compete in the sport she loves is an inspiration to many, gaining media interest throughout the United States and abroad. Today, Mary and her husband live with their son in Wells, Maine.
David and Karen O'Connor
David O'Connor
Karen O'Connor
Karen O'Connor has been named the U.S. Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year 10 times. She was also ranked the No. 1 lady rider in the world in 1993. Karen has won two Olympic medals (1996 and 2000) as a member of the United States Eventing Team, as well as Individual Silver and Gold medals at the Pan Am Games (the latter aboard pony Theodore O'Connor). She also represented the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games.
David O'Connor and Custom Made brought home the first eventing Gold Medal for the United States in more than a quarter of a century when they achieved the best score in Olympic history at the 2000 Games in Sydney. The pair was inducted into the USEA Hall of Fame in 2009. He also helped the U.S. team capture Bronze and Silver at the 2000 and 1996 Games, along with earning two Pan American Games Medals, and two World Championships. President of the United States Equestrian Federation, David was awarded the 2003 Wofford Cup and the 2007 Equine Industry Vision Award.
Mary O'Connor
Mary O'Connor
Mary O'Connor has spent over 30 years in equestrian sports in a wide variety of capacities including owner, rider, trainer, professional groom, management team member, and licensed official, including a USEF Hunter/Jumper judge since 1992.
O'Connor and husband Neil established Cedar Crest Farm, in her hometown of Southampton, NY, earning success at horse shows in the ‘90‘s with all levels of students on Long Island, throughout the northeast, and on the Florida winter circuits. In recent years, riding and training under Joe Fargis, and with sponsorship by Kentucky Equine Research (KER), she has continued to develop young horses in the jumper divisions.
Neil O'Connor officiates regularly at top competitions including the World Cup Finals, Winter Equestrian Festival, North American Young Riders Championships, and Toronto's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
The O'Connors, now operating as Inner Bay LLC, have recently met with great success in the sport horse breeding arena with their first homebred, As di Ani Z (2008 filly, As di Villagana, HAN /Camille, TB). As a yearling in 2009, Ani brought home top prizes in the Hunter Breeding division at Upperville and Warrenton, and again at Upperville in 2010.
Elly Schobel
Elly Schobel
Elly Schobel is a dressage rider and trainer based in South Carolina. Raised and educated in Germany, Elly has had a number of successful horses through Grand Prix.
Elly’s Raison d’Etre stayed at Kentucky Equine Research’s training facility prior to competing in para-dressage with rider Robin Brueckmann at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. KER provided Raison d’Etre with Hemabuild and Bio-Bloom, making an impact that led Elly to request sponsorship to continue use of these products!
Shelly Temple
Shelly Temple
Shelly Temple is a dedicated user of Kentucky Equine Research products for her FEI combined driving Morgan gelding, LR Ami B-Line, ("Cooper"), and other horses in her training barn. The 2007 season saw Cooper named as the USEF Horse of the Year, Combined Driving Single Pony. In 2010, their accomplishments include wins at the Iron Horse Combined Driving Event and Live Oak International. They were also members of the bronze-medal bronze medal team at the U.S. World Pony Driving Championships. Temple teaches carriage driving and trains horses at Catalyst Driving Center in Windsor, South Carolina.
Meg Wade/ Castlebar Endurance Arabians
Meg Wade
Australia's most successful international endurance rider, Meg Wade was a member of the medal winning Australian Team at the FEI World Championships in 1994, 1998 and 2002 as well as finishing fourth as an individual in 2002. Other achievements include winning the prestigious Tom Quilty endurance ride on five occasions and being named Australian Rider of the Year multiple times throughout her career.
Meg and partner Chris Gates run Castlebar Endurance Arabians near Mulwa in Victoria where they have some 300 horses of which approximately 50 will be in training at any one time. Meg and Chris take great pride in breeding and producing internationally competitive endurance horses which are sought after across the globe.
"Feeding is a major part of the management so this is where we use KER's expertise."
Chester Weber
Chester Weber
Chester Weber has been named the U.S. Equestrian Federation Four-in-Hand Driving Champion for eight years in a row. Weber was also named a 2008 USEF Equestrian of Honor and his horse, Jamaica, took home top honors as the 2008 Farnam Platform/USEF Horse of the Year. International honors include an Individual Silver Medal in the Four-in-Hand World Driving Championships in Beesd, The Netherlands, a team Silver and individual fifth at the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games, and two wins at the German Fahrderby held at CAI-A Riesenbeck.
At 18 years old, Chester was the youngest driver to be named to the United States Equestrian Team (USET) and to qualify for the World Pairs Driving Championship. By 1999, Chester had won 12 consecutive Advanced combined driving events and then transitioned to Four-in-Hand driving, where he has made a name for himself internationally.
In addition to his rigorous competition schedule, Weber actively promotes the sport of combined driving. He serves in the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) at the highest levels of the sport. He is currently on the Board of Directors, the High Performance Driving Committee, the National Driving Committee, the Safety Committee and he is also Chairman of the Active Athletes Committee and the Dressage Search Committee.
John Williams
John Williams
John Williams is an event rider and course designer based in Southern Pines, N.C.
John has piloted horses to placings at the Burghley, Fair Hill, and Rolex Kentucky Events, as well as the World Equestrian Games in Jerez. His horses include Carrick, Sloopy, and Sweetpea Dean.
John is now a USEF "R" licensed cross country course designer and has designed courses throughout the United States, including the 2005 American Eventing Championship courses in North Carolina and the new CCI** and CCI*** courses at Jersey Fresh.
